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Toddy Smartcloth Screen Cleaner

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Review written by: on Feb. 9, 2012
Toddy is introducing their new Smart Cloth screen-cleaner, claiming significant improvements over the current state of the art. “But,” one may say, “don’t I already have a drawer full of soft cotton T-shirts and a handful of those microfiber things already?” This is a fair question, since a great many of our readers might say exactly the same thing. We show you why you should reconsider using your shirt and why the Toddy is worth your money.
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  • Posted in: Accessories, Featured, Reviews

Diablotek SSD to USB 3.0 SATA Adapter

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Review written by: on Feb. 7, 2012
Diablotek brings to the table a small USB 3.0 device that on one end has a SATA data and power connector, and on the other a small standard sized USB 3.0 connector. This device promises SSD speeds across a single USB 3.0 port.
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  • Posted in: Accessories, Featured, Reviews

Mythtv Custom Networked HTPC from an Old Rig

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Review written by: on Feb. 7, 2012
The idea of a Home Theater PC (HTPC) has received a lot of attention recently. Microsoft has Windows Media Center; Apple has its Apple Tv; Google has its Google Tv. While these are all great takes on the HTPC concept, they lack real functionality and user customization.
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  • Posted in: Articles, Editorials, Featured

NZXT Phantom 410 Case

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Review written by: on Feb. 6, 2012
Following on the heels of its very well received big brother, NZXT's Phantom 410 promises to offer everything we love about the full size Phantom in a smaller package. But will this reduction in size and price result in an improvement on an already great case, or lead to sacrifices in the 410's design?
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  • Posted in: Cases, Featured, Reviews

Prolimatech Genesis CPU Cooler

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Review written by: on Feb. 2, 2012
Newcomer to the cooling scene, Prolimatech, debuts their Genesis CPU cooler. This behemoth is a hybrid horizontal and vertical cooler that aims to keep your computer cool. Read on to find out if the Genesis can stand up to the epic overclocks that we send its way.
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  • Posted in: Cooling, Featured, Reviews

Raidmax Viper Case

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Review written by: on Feb. 1, 2012
With new cases continually being released by all of the major manufactures, we are getting more features, better build quality, higher airflow, and better looks while prices decrease. Today we will review Raidmax's newest mid-tower entry, the Viper. It has all of the biggest features to go toe-to-toe with the best cases on the market, but will its features be enough to hold its own against its vast amount of competitors?
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  • Posted in: Cases, Featured, Reviews
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  • Announcement written by: on Feb 9 2012, 8:20 am

    Late last year when we reviewed the new Sandy Bridge-E processors, we mentioned a more affordable version called the Core i7-3820 was coming. Although information about the chip had been revealed, the processor has yet to hit shelves and is now expected to arrive later in February. Fortunately, sample units are being passed around ahead of general availability, so we don’t have to wait to see how it stacks up.

    The i7-3820 is particularly intriguing because of its sub-$300 retail price — far less than other chips in the series. For instance, the Core i7-3960X has an MSRP of $999 and sells for more like $1,049, while the i7-3930K has an MSRP of $583 and is fetching $599 at e-tail. Both are six-core CPUs operating over 3GHz with massive 15MB and 12MB L3 caches.

    At roughly half the price of the 3930K, we expected Intel to butcher the i7-3820, and while that’s partially true, the 3820 remains an impressive specimen with four cores operating at 3.6GHz, a 10MB L3 cache and HyperThreading support. Compared to the similarly priced i7-2600K, the 3820 offers additional L3 cache, support for PCI Express 3.0, quad-channel memory and a platform that will take as much as 32GB of system memory.

    http://www.techspot.com/review/492-intel-core-i7-3820/

  • Announcement written by: on Feb 9 2012, 8:20 am

    DESCRIPTION: We live in a three-dimensional world, and display technology is finally catching up to how we see things. Games, movies, multimedia video, and even photos are now widely available in stereoscopic 3D. Packaged with a NVIDIA 3D Vision-2 glasses kit, the ASUS VG278H LCD Monitor gives you that big screen experience with vivid color, 120Hz high-definition 1080p picture quality, and added 3D special effects. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the ASUS VG278H 27″ LED-backlight widescreen120Hz monitor with NVIDIA 3D LightBoost technology and show off its built-in stereoscopic 3D Vision-2 functionality.

    ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=846&Itemid=68

  • Announcement written by: on Feb 9 2012, 8:19 am

    Quote: “I have been doing a lot of traveling lately.  On thing that I always miss when I am traveling is my 2 large monitors from my home desktop system.  Going from them to a laptop screen is not that fun.  You can purchase laptops with pull-out screens, but they are few are far between and are quite expensive.  So what are you to do if you want a dual-screen setup on your laptop?  Get a portable display of course!  Today we are talking a look at the On-Lap 1301 Portable Monitor.  It is a small, portable 13.3-inch screen that is powered by USB and can be used with any device that has an HDMI or VGA connection.  Read on as we check it out!”

    Review Link: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/gechic-on-lap-1301-portable-monitor-review/

  • Announcement written by: on Feb 9 2012, 8:19 am
    In sunny Monte Carlo, the haute couture revelations are matched only by the inside info unleashed by the major corporation’s executives. While Microsoft themselves were tight-lipped, we managed to discover the Windows 8 mega-beta-launch date.
    Read the news here: http://www.kitguru.net/software/operating-systems/faith/windows-8-confirmed-for-february-29th-beta-queue/
  • Announcement written by: on Feb 9 2012, 8:18 am
    A few days ago we looked at the latest Solid State Drive from Intel – the 520 series, codenamed ‘Cherryville’. The drive is built around ‘compute quality’ 25 nanometer NAND flash memory and offers a claimed maximum sequential read speed of 550 MB/s. It claimed our top award earlier this week, thanks to the class leading performance and reassuring 5 year warranty.
    So why the follow up today? Well I was genuinely that impressed with the custom Intel firmware 240GB 520 Series drive, that Intel sent another so we could update our readers with RAID 0 results. An enthusiast user with £800 burning a hole in their pocket will assuredly be contemplating a pair of these 240GB drives for blistering system performance.
    Read the review here: http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/zardon/intel-520-series-240gb-raid-0-update-ssd-review/
  • Announcement written by: on Feb 9 2012, 8:18 am

    QUOTE: “The new firmware update roughly doubles random write performance, a weak point in the initial release. With a 10,000 IOPS increase in random write speed we’ll be examining the new performance of the 512GB capacity size.

    When the industry moves to 20nm in Q3, 512GB will be the new 256GB. 512GB drives should cost much less than they do today and by the time Q4 rolls around they may even become affordable like the 256GB drives are today.”

    For more information, please visit – http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/4546/ocz_technology_octane_512gb_solid_state_drive_with_1_13_performance_firmware/index.html